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Islam, Democracy and Human Rights in Contemporary Indonesia47difficult to generalize and prepare the same plan of action tosolve them. One of the complexities of problem in Asia is thevariety of religious and ethnic communities living in the country,which is the reality of history. The Asian people with their variousreligious community and ethnic groups gather themselves andbuilt a new nation state, maybe the most complex nation amongother continents. The %u201csecular%u201d modern world predicts that theproblem will be solved automatically, because they consider thatreligious problem is a private problem of every person, so areethnic problems. The %u201csecularization thesis%u201d stated that the morea country develops, the society becomes more secular andignores religious matters. So are ethnic problems, because thesociety has became a new nation and new national identitywill replace the old orientation based on ethnic identity. Evenfurther, there are a lot of opinions predict that globalizationwill unite the world, physically and culturally. Territorialborders are irrelevant, and there appears the universal solidarityof mankind with no limitation of countries, ethnic, religions andnations.Allow me to state that these will not be a reality in thismoment of the 21st decade and even may be in the future ofhuman civilization. The realization of globalization perhaps isonly a dream, as a result of the failure understanding of thehuman nature and its civilization. It looks as though the worldwill always be divided into groups based on the concepts ofcertain ideologies of the world and people. Samuel Huntingtonwriting on the clash of civilization which show the potentialconflicts between two great civilization in the world %u2013 the Islamiccivilization and the West %u2014 apart from religious backgroundwill shadow the future of human civilization.